OSC to MIDI conversion and MIDI over network, with a free, open source tool

Music gear and software supports MIDI. Visual software supports OSC. You have a network and want to easily run MIDI over it. Sound familiar? Here’s a clever free tool (with open code you can also learn from) that acts as an essential tool.

An ‘Interspecies’ Music Interface Combines a Mask, Bacteria

Organum Vivum – a interspecies interface from Paul Seidler on Vimeo. Your next digital interface might be grown, not made. Organam Vivum drops the usual combinations of knobs and hard surfaces and wires for something organic – an “interspecies” interface. The sensors are grown from bacteria, formed into alien-looking, futuristic materials and a mask. The […]

Peter Kirn - July 20, 2015

Push Pixels Harder: Open Hap Video Codec Now on Windows and Mac

So, you’ve got a laptop and you want to play multiple video streams. And maybe it’s not a super-fast laptop – maybe it’s just a kind-of normal laptop that you’ve upgraded to an SSD. Or, wait — you’ve actually just gotten the dream job media art gig you always wanted. And they’ve assembled 52 projectors […]

Peter Kirn - June 6, 2014

From Song to 3D Model to Augmented App: Visualizing Oneohtrix Point Never

Peter Kirn - December 12, 2013

Microsoft Embraces Open, Creative Coding: New Kinect openFrameworks, Cinder Integration

Peter Kirn - October 21, 2013

Redefining Architecture, in a Dance of Lasers

Peter Kirn - June 24, 2013

The Natural World, in Code: Dan Shiffman Talks Genetic Algorithms

Peter Kirn - May 28, 2013

From Light, Lasers, and Smoke, Solid-Looking Sculptures in the Air [OpenFrameworks]

Peter Kirn - May 16, 2013

Responsive Kinect Dancing Goes Hip-Hop [Video, Tips]

Peter Kirn - May 13, 2013

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